ForestEthics to Calgary Herald columnist: We stand with British Columbians
The following is a letter sent to Deborah Yedlin of the Calgary Herald from ForestEthics Senior Energy Campaigner, Nikki Skuce, in response to "Does everyone have a right to complain at Northern Gateway pipeline review?" (November 4, 2011).
As a Canadian campaigner with ForestEthics, I'm proud to say that we're active participants in the fight against Enbridge's destructive pipeline to the Great Bear Rainforest. We are aligned with 80% of British Columbians and concerned citizens around the globe. We're bringing impacted members from Enbridge's Kalamazoo oil spill to the hearings so that they can share their unique perspective and share their stories of how Tar Sands' spills impact health, watersheds and communities.
How is it that neither Deborah Yedlin nor Viviane Krauss take issue with Enbridge and its foreign currency influence? Enbridge has a number of U.S. representatives on their Board of Directors and countless foreign shareholders. Not only has Enbridge received $10 million from major Chinese oil company, Sinopec, but another $90 million from secret sources they refuse to reveal. Funding to non-profits are a pathetic fraction of that kind of funding, and they're obligated and happy to disclose their sources of funding annually.
Instead of trying to silence the opposition, it should be celebrated that nearly 4,000 Canadians have the courage to stand up and speak their views from the heart. The world will be listening.
